Episode 7: Live Performances

This week is dedicated to Dylan the performer, and the exploration of how certain songs have changed in performance throughout the years. Making the case that there is rarely one definitive version of a Dylan song, Laura traces the appeal of the songs' transformation and re-invention.

Playlist:

1. One Too Many Mornings (snippet)

2. One Too Many Mornings (Live, 17 May 1966, Manchester Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK, snippet)

3. One Too Many Mornings (with The Band, live at the Isle of Wight, snippet)

4. One Too Many Mornings (Hard Rain)

5. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (snippet)

6. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (with The Band, live at the Isle of Wight)

7. Ring Them Bells (snippet)

8. Ring Them Bells (Live, 17 November, 1993 at the Supper Club, NYC)

9. Cold Irons Bound

10. Cold Irons Bound (Live at Bonnaroo 2004)

11. Seven Days (live)
    

Episode 6: Valentine's Day Special

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, this week Laura plays and discusses a selection of Dylan’s most romantic songs. 

Playlist:

1. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (with The Band, live at the Isle of Wight)

2. Lay Lady Lay

3. If Not For You

4. Nobody ‘Cept You

5. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

6. Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Live, 4 December 1975, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada)

7. She Belongs To me

8. Make You Feel My Love

9. When The Deal Goes Down
   

Episode 5: Down the Rabbit Hole

This week Laura is playing a game of Six Degrees of Separations which she calls "Down The Rabbit Hole With Bob Dylan". We're starting at the beginning and then travelling through Dylan's career, freely associating songs and anecdotes, encountering idols, lovers, and friends along the way. 

1. Song To Woody

2. Passing Through - The Earl Scruggs Revue

3. Isis (Live, 4 December, 1975, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada)

4. I And I

5. When You Gonna Wake Up (Live, 9 July, 1981, Drammenshallen, Drammen, Norway)

6. It’s Not The Spotlight - Barry Goldberg

7. Do Re Mi (with Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks - The People Speak)
   

Episode 4: Dylan and the Movies

Over the course of his career, Dylan has often shown an affinity for the silver screen: from contributions to soundtracks, acting gigs, trying his hand at directing, or even just writing songs that are cinematic in nature, this week Laura Tenschert is talking about Dylan and the movies!

Apologies for the technical difficulties at the beginning (AGAIN. I swear it gets better!)

Also, here’s the video to the wonderful performance of Tangled Up In Blue from Renaldo & Clara.

And here’s the performance of Diamond Joe from Masked & Anonymous (2003) that I didn’t have time for anymore.

Playlist:

1. The Man In Me

2. Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys OST)

3. Ballad Of Easy Rider - Roger McGuinn

4. Knockin On Heaven’s Door

5. Tangled Up In Blue (Live, 21 November, 1975, Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, second show)

6. Brownsville Girl

7. You Belong To Me (Natural Born Killers OST)

8. Huck’s Tune (Lucky You OST)

Episode 3: Outtakes

In episode #3 Laura plays a selection of Dylan's finest songs which originally didn't make the album cut. (Apologies for the technical difficulties at the beginning.)

Besides the Caribbean Wind version released on Biograph, and the two versions that were included on Trouble No More, here’s the fourth version mentioned in the episode, which has thus far only circulated as a bootleg recording.

Here’s the only live version of Abandoned Love.

And this is the electric version of Blind Willie McTell that was supposedly in the running for making it onto the Infidels release, but which has remained unreleased as of now.

And this is the Definitely Dylan Spotify playlist.

Playlist:

1. Seven Curses

2. Lay Down Your Weary Tune

3. Caribbean Wind (Rehearsal With Pedal Steel)

4. Abandoned Love

5. Up To Me

6. Blind Willie McTell

7. Lord Protect My Child

8. Red River Shore